Quotes About Accuracy

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

The opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals.

Didn't know you could measure distance so well with nothing but you bloody eyeballs

reported only seven deaths during surgery.

mistakes subject to so discerning and public a post?mortem as weather forecasters.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Good interviewers share three features. They . . . obtain the greatest amount of accurate information relevant to diagnosis and management, in the shortest period of time, consistent with creating and maintaining a good working relationship (rapport) with the patient.

Mark Twain's memory had become capricious and his vivid imagination did not always supply his story with details of crystal accuracy.

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

People have used these books for centuries. Their accuracy is beyond dispute." "Well, I have as much respect for ancient learning as you do, but I don't know that I'd want to stake my life on some home remedy from the Middle Ages." "Well, I suppose I can check it somewhere else," he said, without much conviction.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air of being delivered at random. Housekeeping!

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalise false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help.

Anything that is put down wrong here is, as far as I'm concerned, wrong for good.

secondary accounts are viewed by historians as examples of 'generation loss' and the unreliability of oral tradition. The farther you are from the primary source, the harder it gets to be certain the details are one hundred percent accurate.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

You weren't quite accurate just now." "I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted.

What a newspaper prints is news – but not always truth!